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UN council to probe Syria as 12 killed in protests

2011-04-30 00:00:00

GENEVA, April 29 (AFP) : The 47-nation UN Human Rights Council on Friday voted for a revised US-led resolution on the crackdown in Syria that asked the UN rights chief to send an investigative mission to the country. The resolution...

Air India says pilots' strike costing $6m

2011-04-30 00:00:00

MUMBAI, April 29, (AFP): India's ailing flagship airline Air India today said it has lost 265 million rupees ($5.97 million) in revenue due to an ongoing strike by hundreds of pilots over pay. The state-run carrier said in an statement...

Price hike lowers demand for re-conditioned cars

2011-04-30 00:00:00

Monira MunniThe demand for re-conditioned cars has dropped substantially due to high import duty, depreciation of local currency against the US dollar, and impact of Japan's recent natural disaster, traders said. They have claimed that the sale of reconditioned car...

Schoolboy crowned Maharaja of Jaipur****

2011-04-30 00:00:00

JAIPUR (India), Apr 28 (AFP): A 12-year-old boy has been crowned Maharaja of Jaipur, becoming head of what was once one of India's most glamorous and wealthy royal families. In a grand marble hall, Kumar Padmanabh Singh was blessed by...

news digest

2011-04-30 00:00:00

Iraqi general gunned down in Baghdad BAGHDAD, Apr 28: Gunmen using silenced pistols shot dead a senior Iraqi general in Baghdad Thursday, an official said, the latest in a spate of assassinations of top military and civilian officials. The killing...

Jute goods ventures rise in Rangpur

2011-04-30 00:00:00

Our Correspondent RANGPUR, Apr 28: An increase in demand for jute products, especially handicraft goods has made small enterprises of the north enthusiastic and optimistic of going ahead with ventures. More than 150 enterprises in Rangpur division are now producing...

State Bank of India to open branch at Rajshahi

2011-04-30 00:00:00

A three-member delegation of the State Bank of India called on Mayor of the Rajshahi City Corporation AHM Khairuzzaman Liton at the latter's office here today. During the meeting, the team apprised the mayor that a new branch of the...

Govt cancels 10 more Hajj agency licences

2011-04-30 00:00:00

The government has cancelled licences of 10 more hajj agencies for various irregularities during the holy hajj in 2010. The agencies are: R H Majumdar Travel, Shaheen Travels International, Liberty Travel, RS Travel International, Goodwill Aviation Services, Jiban Travels Ltd,...

Myanmar, China to build rail link

2011-04-30 00:00:00

YANGON, Apr 28: Myanmar and China plan to build a railroad together that will link China's landlocked Yunnan province to a deep-sea port being built in Myanmar's Rakhine state. The state-run newspaper New Light of Myanmar reported Thursday the project...

weather

2011-04-30 00:00:00

Rain or thundershowers accompanied by temporary gusty or squally wind is likely at a few places over Dhaka, Barisal and Chittagong divisions and at one or two places over Khulna, Rajshahi, Rangpur and Sylhet divisions in next 24 hours till...

Avoiding a needless confrontation******

2011-04-30 00:00:00

Enayet Rasul BhuiyanA movement that has gathered quite a force and seen as having the potential to create and sustain a great deal of violence and confrontation between the government and Islamist forces, is least desirable when there are umpteenth...

Corn revolution in Bangladesh*******

2011-04-30 00:00:00

Nehal AdilCorn, as maize is called among our upper class, is getting popular. Pop-corn and corn flakes are turning part of our everyday life. But the most important role that maize is playing is as animal fodder. With the growth...

The Mess Age

2011-04-30 00:00:00

Ameer HamzaWhat the Irish political satirist Jonathan Swift said, tongue-in-cheek, about lawyers in England during his time may well serve to describe journalists, by and large everywhere these days: they 'are people who are trained from their youth to prove...

Air India says pilots' strike costing $6m

2011-04-30 00:00:00

MUMBAI, April 29, (AFP): India's ailing flagship airline Air India today said it has lost 265 million rupees ($5.97 million) in revenue due to an ongoing strike by hundreds of pilots over pay. The state-run carrier said in an statement...

Price hike lowers demand for re-conditioned cars

2011-04-30 00:00:00

Monira MunniThe demand for re-conditioned cars has dropped substantially due to high import duty, depreciation of local currency against the US dollar, and impact of Japan's recent natural disaster, traders said. They have claimed that the sale of reconditioned car...

Schoolboy crowned Maharaja of Jaipur****

2011-04-30 00:00:00

JAIPUR (India), Apr 28 (AFP): A 12-year-old boy has been crowned Maharaja of Jaipur, becoming head of what was once one of India's most glamorous and wealthy royal families. In a grand marble hall, Kumar Padmanabh Singh was blessed by...

news digest

2011-04-30 00:00:00

Iraqi general gunned down in Baghdad BAGHDAD, Apr 28: Gunmen using silenced pistols shot dead a senior Iraqi general in Baghdad Thursday, an official said, the latest in a spate of assassinations of top military and civilian officials. The killing...

Jute goods ventures rise in Rangpur

2011-04-30 00:00:00

Our Correspondent RANGPUR, Apr 28: An increase in demand for jute products, especially handicraft goods has made small enterprises of the north enthusiastic and optimistic of going ahead with ventures. More than 150 enterprises in Rangpur division are now producing...

State Bank of India to open branch at Rajshahi

2011-04-30 00:00:00

A three-member delegation of the State Bank of India called on Mayor of the Rajshahi City Corporation AHM Khairuzzaman Liton at the latter's office here today. During the meeting, the team apprised the mayor that a new branch of the...

Govt cancels 10 more Hajj agency licences

2011-04-30 00:00:00

The government has cancelled licences of 10 more hajj agencies for various irregularities during the holy hajj in 2010. The agencies are: R H Majumdar Travel, Shaheen Travels International, Liberty Travel, RS Travel International, Goodwill Aviation Services, Jiban Travels Ltd,...

Myanmar, China to build rail link

2011-04-30 00:00:00

YANGON, Apr 28: Myanmar and China plan to build a railroad together that will link China's landlocked Yunnan province to a deep-sea port being built in Myanmar's Rakhine state. The state-run newspaper New Light of Myanmar reported Thursday the project...

weather

2011-04-30 00:00:00

Rain or thundershowers accompanied by temporary gusty or squally wind is likely at a few places over Dhaka, Barisal and Chittagong divisions and at one or two places over Khulna, Rajshahi, Rangpur and Sylhet divisions in next 24 hours till...

Guerrilla: A milestone in Bangla film******

2011-04-30 00:00:00

Sakib ShahriarGuerrilla, a Bangladeshi film directed by Nasiruddin Yousuff, based on Sayed Shamsul Haque's novel 'Nishiddho Loban', has been released on April 14 throughout the country and it is a milestone for all Bangladeshi movies ever made on the history...

Firmer currencies in Central, E Europe spawn no panic

2011-04-30 00:00:00

Lidia MoiseStronger currencies in Central and Eastern European countries have stopped short of raising too many eyebrows given solid fundamentals of the economies in the region, economists say. The devastating earthquake, tsunami and the ensuing nuclear crisis in Japan and...

High costs of living bite hard in Kenya

2011-04-30 00:00:00

Bedah MengoAs tough economic times bite across Kenya, many people are tightening their purses to ensure the little they have pushes them to the next day. High fuel and food prices have occasioned a rise in the cost of living...

Air India says pilots' strike costing $6m

2011-04-30 00:00:00

MUMBAI, April 29, (AFP): India's ailing flagship airline Air India today said it has lost 265 million rupees ($5.97 million) in revenue due to an ongoing strike by hundreds of pilots over pay. The state-run carrier said in an statement...

Price hike lowers demand for re-conditioned cars

2011-04-30 00:00:00

Monira MunniThe demand for re-conditioned cars has dropped substantially due to high import duty, depreciation of local currency against the US dollar, and impact of Japan's recent natural disaster, traders said. They have claimed that the sale of reconditioned car...

Schoolboy crowned Maharaja of Jaipur****

2011-04-30 00:00:00

JAIPUR (India), Apr 28 (AFP): A 12-year-old boy has been crowned Maharaja of Jaipur, becoming head of what was once one of India's most glamorous and wealthy royal families. In a grand marble hall, Kumar Padmanabh Singh was blessed by...

news digest

2011-04-30 00:00:00

Iraqi general gunned down in Baghdad BAGHDAD, Apr 28: Gunmen using silenced pistols shot dead a senior Iraqi general in Baghdad Thursday, an official said, the latest in a spate of assassinations of top military and civilian officials. The killing...

Jute goods ventures rise in Rangpur

2011-04-30 00:00:00

Our Correspondent RANGPUR, Apr 28: An increase in demand for jute products, especially handicraft goods has made small enterprises of the north enthusiastic and optimistic of going ahead with ventures. More than 150 enterprises in Rangpur division are now producing...